Grand Rapids has gained the attention of many urbanists, locally and nationally in the past decade based upon its successful community re-investment strategies. Grand Rapids has been doing...
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I drive by it everyday. Each time, I think, “I need to capture this before the trains move again.” For brief periods of time, a moving art gallery comes to Grand Rapids at the train yard...
On Saturday, January 9th the indie music sounds of the Great Lakes region will merge in Grand Rapids. Starting off the trip are local pop-folksters ...
Join the Spring ArtWorks youth program and experience an eight-week series that includes films, hands-on activities, and workshops run by contemporary artists and local businesses. ArtWorks is a...
For the last several years, the Grand Rapids Institute for Information and Democracy (GRIID) has been putting on classes to help spread awareness of important current issues. Starting...
Each year, Grand Rapids Community Foundation awards more than $550,000 in scholarships to students who are college bound or pursuing a technical career. 2010 marks the 65th year the...
Over a span of only ten days, West Michigan residents succeeded in making winter a little warmer for over 500 members of Boys & Girls Clubs in Grand Rapids, Kalamazoo, Holland, and...
January 21. $21. 21 spots. The registration page for #BreakfastForSmartPpl went live at 4:30 p.m....
I recently interviewed Steve Alsum. He is the coordinator for Clean Works, a needle exchange and disease prevention program that operates on Mondays and Thursdays out of...
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As you walk by the many shops and buildings in Heritage Hill that we have grown fond off, buildings like...
A beer mile is an odd event. To compete, you could be good at running, you might be good at drinking beer but to win you need to be somewhat good at both. The Grand Rapids Beer Mile was the...
Grand Rapids Central High School is the city’s oldest public high school. It has seen...
Church-goers attending the Christmas Eve midnight mass were met by a wall of choral music immediately upon entering the...
by: Sisters Mary Lucille Janowiak OP and...
Super Happy Funtime Burlesque has been around for quite a while now, entertaining audiences and offending critics. Friday...
A year ago this December, workers at the Republic Windows and Doors Factory in Chicago, Illinois were informed by management that the factory would be closing in three days and...
We often carry with us a deep longing for a quiet space away, where we can see the beauty of the wilderness and listen to the songs of nature--a place of renewal and peace where we can take time...
The Economist Series features a series of collaborative works that represent an ongoing dialogue between the two artists. Each piece in the series is an extrapolation of weeks in time,...
Atrocities is based on the 85 prints in Fransico Goya’s Disasters of War. Seah seeks to investigate the pleasure of viewing a still image by animating it within one’s mind....
West Michigan Environmental Action Council (WMEAC) is offering a five-session program to encourage and support the desire to care for creation. This...
Cydney Colvig, Special Events Volunteer
In every city she has resided, Cydney Colvig seeks out artistic opportunities of both the professional and volunteer nature....
Call for Entries: dis.place.ment
dis.place.ment, an international juried exhibition. As part of an ongoing commitment to...
MATURE CONTENT: Contains partial nudity
Shimmy Shack Burlesque is in a lot of ways...
Meeting up with the Grand Rapids, MI Flickr group might seem a little intimidating if you look at the photos in the group pool. There are plenty of people carrying around big equipment, and it's...
Walking through the austere building, you hear hushed voices, feel a cool draft and see stark white walls everywhere you look. You move from room to room glancing at each of the hundreds of...
The movie, Hiroshima: Repentance and Renewal, will show on December 20, 2009 at the Dominican Center at Marywood. The 38-minute movie will...